Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....CALLAHAN, JOHN December 16, 1866 - ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Tina Vickery tsvickery@adelphia.net March 11, 2007, 2:20 pm Author: The State Printing Board, Compiled and Published. STATE OFFICERS STATE SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIC INSTRUCTION JOHN CALLAHAN, who was elected State Superintendent at the election, held April 5th, 1921, by a total vote of 207,521 to his opponent's, C. P. Cary vote of 177,582 was born in Westchester county, New York, December 16, 1866, and came to Wisconsin with his parents, in 1869, making his home at Prescott, Pierce county. He has had over thirty years experience in Wisconsin public schools and for twenty-seven years had held the life certificate. For three years he was with the Pierce county schools, eight years Supervisory Principal at Glenwood City, three years at New Richmond, and Superintendent of Schools at Menasha for seventeen years. For the past three years he has been State Director of Vocational Education. He was conductor of the Teachers Institutes, president of the Northwest Teachers Association 1900, president of the Northeast Teachers Association 1908, president of the State Teachers Association 1913, and for the past twelve years has been a member of the Teachers Legislative Committee. He has made a specialty of rural and graded school work and has an exceptional familiarity with the entire school system of the state. He assumed the duties of his office as State Superintendent of Public Instruction July 1, 1921. --- Additional Comments: The Wisconsin Blue Book. The State Printing Board, 1923. 598 - 640. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wi/history/bluebook/1923/bios/callahan6nbs.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/wifiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb